Belgium

SME Finance Forum member, European Association of Guarantee Institutions, is hosting the AECM Annual Event June 12-15. Session topics include The priorities for the new EU budget, Taking stock of SME policy of the outgoing EU Commission and The impact of digitization on guarantee business – opportunities and challenges.

SME Finance Forum members are entitled to receive a discount on registration. Please, contact us for more information.

A Deep Dive into Banking Disruption, Collaboration, BigTech and Open Banking

After the successful Innovation Workshop in November 2017, WSBI is diving deeper with its members into discussions on banking disruption and BigTech trends. They will further look into current disruption tendencies and how banks should react as well as how to build meaningful collaborations to enhance the customer experience and offering for consumers and SMEs. They will dig deeper into open banking strategies and platforms to form a vision on new business models. 

Small and medium-sized enterprises contribute significantly to the European economy and are often called its backbone. SMEs play a major role in jobs creation and they generate a substantial added value to the economy. Despite their success and growth there are many challenges that SMEs face in today's fast-paced and ever-changing business world. Access to funding is often cited as one of the most frequent business barriers owners of SMEs encounter.

The workshop to be held on 10 October at the ESBG office in Brussels will focus on the SME financing in Europe topic.